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Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de ref. del artículo G0140020608I3N00
328pages. 18x11x2cm. Poche.
Acerca del autor: Joseph Conrad's major works (all published by Penguin Classics) include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim,Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent and Typhoon.
Título: Modern Classics Victory Island Tale
Editorial: Penguin Classic
Año de publicación: 1963
Encuadernación: Unknown
Condición: Good
Condición de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket
Librería: Crappy Old Books, Barry, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Good. Victory ? Joseph Conrad (Penguin Modern Classics, 1973) ISBN: 0140020608 ? Condition: Good ? Sold by Crappy Old Books Welcome to the tropics, where the sunsets are operatic, the mosquitoes are Napoleonic, and loneliness wears a linen suit. Victory introduces Axel Heyst , a courteous Scandinavian who solved the problem of other people by opting out. He manages a polite relationship with a volcano, a moth-eaten coal company, and the philosophy that detachment is almost a hobby. Then he does the un-Scandinavian thing: he meets Lena ?a traveling show?s ?lady violinist? in distress?and performs a rescue. This is the trouble with good deeds: suddenly you?re not an island, you?re an island with visitors. Enter the visitors. Schomberg , a hotelier who gossips like a broken accordion, spreads a tale that Heyst sits on pirate treasure. The rumor summons a three-man morality play: Mr. Jones (a cadaverous gentleman who treats murder like bridge), Ricardo (his ferretish enthusiast), and Pedro (the silent punctuation mark at the end of a sentence you don?t want to finish). They descend on Samburan , Heyst?s private Eden-with-termite-problems, to liberate a fortune that does not exist. What they find is worse: two people trying to build a small republic of kindness amid the steam and mildew. Conrad threads irony like a garrote. The book is called Victory , but the prizes are mostly interior: the moment when a recluse chooses a person over a principle; the way courage borrows the voice of someone who has been underestimated all her life. Heyst thinks you can out-think involvement; Lena knows you can?t; the villains prefer you don?t think at all. Watch how the siege tightens: talk curdles into menace; politeness becomes a weapon; the jungle hums as if it were on the payroll. Expect: A gentleman devil in immaculate whites, because evil likes a crease. A romance built from shyness, tea, and mutually agreed privacy. A hotel lobby that manufactures lies at scale. An island that proves neutrality is not a survival strategy. An ending that earns the title the way a scar earns a story. This 1973 Penguin Modern Classics edition arrives in that cool grey livery that makes tragedy look scholarly. ? Condition: Good ,? translated from Crappy Old Books : a veteran paperback with an honest spine-crease, a whisper of tropical tan to the pages, and the structural integrity to survive both a deckchair and a commuter train. No volcano ash; possible faint aroma of philosophical resignation. Buy it for the gentleman villains and the jungle siege; keep it for Lena, who steals the novel by telling the truth softly. Crappy Old Books: purveyors of paperbacks slightly weathered by experience?like the best characters?and far more dependable than rumors of buried treasure. Nº de ref. del artículo: 4856
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR003136482
Cantidad disponible: 3 disponibles
Librería: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. paperback, 328pp, owner's name inside front cover, page edges browned, otherwise clean and tight, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0140020608. Nº de ref. del artículo: 923728
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Reading Habit, Buttaba, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Paperback. Condición: Good. Reprint. Small paperback, reprint, 210gms, 327 pages. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Nº de ref. del artículo: GENFIC78476
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: JLG_livres anciens et modernes, Saint Maur des Fossés, Francia
Condición: Très bon. J.L.G se sert de Zelliseller Evolution pour gérer ses Market Places. Nº de ref. del artículo: ZS-34B79941
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Slight wear to cover.This is the story of a man's attempts to detach himself from the central current of life. Axel Heyst, the disenchanted Swede, becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Nº de ref. del artículo: 006523
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Nº de ref. del artículo: H16A-03202
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Unknown. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Nº de ref. del artículo: G0140020608I3N00
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Paperback. Condición: Good. 328 pages. A firm book with the usual brown age toning, with written margin notes etc. Just a reading copy. Nº de ref. del artículo: 029300
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: 57104131-6
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles